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Today, we visited Mykonos, which is a Greek island off the shore of Turkey, and part of the Cyclades chain. This is believed to be where the Titans were hurled into the Ocean by Zeus & Co, and the Cyclades themselves bind them forever into the ocean.
I don't have any historical context to offer on Mykonos. It's the most impressive venue for street photography that we've ever seen. The island has somehow adopted a theme of gleaming white walls and blue windows and doors. The place is immaculate, everything clean and sparkling. From the port, it looks like a sleepy seafront village, but once you enter the main town, the twisty little streets (arranged to facilitate ambushes against visiting pirates) keep going and going.
There are restaurants and bars, and narrow winding alleys filled with shops. No graffiti, no trash anywhere, people wiping down each individual section of white wall as you go by. Apparently it's considered to have among the most cosmopolitan nightlife in Greece, but during the day, it's just beautiful.
We loved the pictures we got here, of both the town and the kids.

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Taking a stand against a proposed coal export terminal in Louisiana
Gretna, La., might be a small city, but the residents are banding together to speak out against a proposed coal export terminal and the increased coal trains that would come with it. In the past month they've packed two community meetings to learn more about the proposed RAM Terminal coal export facility.
Back in June, dozens of people attended a Clean Gulf Commerce Coalition public meeting as a way to kick off the Gretna movement against the facility. The facility itself it planned for Plaquemines Parish, but the rail line serving it bisects Gretna.
The meeting followed weeks of canvassing, phonebanking, and media outreach to publicize the meeting, collect petition signatures, and draw attention to the problems of coal trains rumbling through historic districts and along major commuter highways intersections, said Sierra Club organizer Devin Martin.
"It was a joint effort between the Sierra Club, the Gulf Restoration Network, and the Clean Gulf Commerce Coalition," said Martin.
The movement's been making the news as well:
"Gretna has been making a lot of progress, preserving its historic district, renovating its old post office. It seems Gretna is on the upswing,'' said Devin Martin, a Sierra Club organizer who lives just outside Gretna, in neighboring Algiers. "The last thing the city needs is to have that rail line turn into an industrial corridor.''
Then on July 9, Gretna residents packed a Gretna City Council meeting to get the chance to testify their concerns about the possibility of coal trains passing through their neighborhoods, with all the attendant health risks, traffic congestion, emergency response times, and economic and quality of life concerns that would rattle the town.
"They gave some of the best, most heartfelt, moving, and powerful statements I've ever witnessed in my four years with the Club," said Martin.
Martin says the weeks since that first June town meeting included some excellent organizing - from tabling at farmer's markets and cafes, to business outreach, and weekly community meetings.
"Our goal was to introduce our presence and show the council that this is a vital issue that cannot be ignored any longer, and that the Mayor and council must take leadership and elevate and amplify the concerns of their constituents to state and federal decision makers," said Martin.
The coalition is asking the Gretna City Council to pass a resolution that would oppose coal trains, as well requesting that the appropriate state and federal agencies involved in the RAM Terminal permitting conduct a full public health, economic, and environmental impact analysis, which has not been done.
"The Council is definitely feeling the heat, and we intend to come back in August with even more residents, business owners, and health professionals to encourage the Council to pass this resolution," said Martin.
"From there, we will work to engage the entire Parish of Jefferson, the most populous parish in Louisiana, to do the same to stop this new coal export terminal that puts so much at risk for so many in one of the most vulnerable regions of the world for climate change and sea level rise."


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[Editor's note: SInce this article appeared, Blackboard has filed a contempt motion in its case against Desire2Learn. You can find more in our article "Blackboard Continues Pursuit of Desire2Learn" here. --D.N.]Learning management system provider Desire2Learn Thursday said that it's finished migrating all of its clients in the United States to Learning Environment version 8.3. The company also said it's paid off Blackboard more than $3 million for the judgment Blackboard won in court in February. But the story doesn't end there.
According to Desire2Learn, it recently reached an agreement with Blackboard and wired more than $3.31 million over to the company Wednesday in payment of the judgment and interest. The money will be returned to Desire2Learn should the judgment be reversed.
In February, the company lost a patent-infringement lawsuit filed by Blackboard and in March was enjoined by the court from selling any versions of its learning management system containing the "infringing" code. In response, Desire2Learn rolled out a new version of the Learning Environment (8.3) in March as a workaround. As of now, according to the company, all of its United States customers have now migrated to the new version. So presumably there is no "infringing" code left out there in the marketplace.
However, in a blog post today, Desire2Learn let slip some ominous words:
"The stay of the injunction expired as of midnight last night. We do anticipate that Blackboard will continue this litigation by moving for contempt with a claim that version 8.3 somehow infringes on their (now seriously undermined) patent. If Blackboard chooses this course, we are prepared to defend version 8.3 vigorously."
As we previously reported, Desire2Learn made its version 8.3 available to Blackboard for review back when it was still a "workaround candidate."
However, it's unclear whether Blackboard ever went to the trouble of examining that release prior to its full rollout. When last we spoke with Blackboard representatives, they had not examined that version.
Despite a major setback for Blackboard's patent in the United States Patent and Trademark Office in late March, Blackboard has vowed to press on with the case against Desire2Learn and in enforcing patent in general, which has yet to be invalidated formally in court or at the Patent Office. In fact, in late May, the company not only defended its patent claims with the USPTO, but filed additional claims in the patent as well.
We are at present waiting to hear back from Blackboard on the company's plans to pursue the matter with Desire2Learn further. As of this writing, Blackboard has been given an opportunity to respond but has declined comment. We may or may not have comments from the company next week. To date, Blackboard has been open to discussing its patent and legal issues with us to share with our readers. We'll update you when more information becomes available.
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The importance of Rainfall in the Grape Growing process
Rainfall brings cloud cover and moderates the temperature. In California, temperature moderation and cooling are almost synonymous, but not always. Especially on frosty spring mornings, rain can increase the temperature.
One of the reasons that California produces such great grapes is that the state generally has dry weather in late spring and summer. Too much rain during these months can cause grey rot and other diseases. A rainy summer can also push back the harvest date. But some rain is necessary during these months.
There are specific times during the growing season that rain can be disastrous. Rainfall right before fruit set can cause millerandage or coulure. Both occur when the grapes are not properly fertilized due to cold weather or excessive rain.
Precipitation right before harvest is also bad news. The vines eagerly suck up the water and the sugar/acidity balance is thrown off. Mildew and rot is also a worry. Delicate varietals such as Riesling and Pinot Noir are particularly susceptible. The best years are dry in the weeks leading up to harvest.
Successful California Wineries are intimately aware of their property's climate, including the amount of rain their vineyards normally receive. But Mother Nature is unpredictable and this is far from an exact science. As Mark Twain said, "Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get."
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Most constellations bear little resemblance to their namesakes. You need a great imagination to see a king in the stars of Cepheus, for example, or a "sea goat" in Capricornus.
One constellation that does resemble its namesake is the dolphin, Delphinus. It's a small grouping of stars that's low in the east at nightfall, and swims high across the south later on. And that little group of stars really does look like a dolphin jumping through the edge of the starry Milky Way.
In Greek mythology, Delphinus carried a poet to safety when he jumped overboard to escape some nasty sailors. The poet and the dolphin were commemorated in several coins that were issued around 500 B.C. And the dolphin gained longer-lasting recognition through its own constellation.
None of the individual stars of Delphinus is particularly interesting. The brightest is Beta Delphini. It's near the center of the constellation, and marks the end of the dolphin's torso. The dolphin's body stretches to the left as it climbs higher in the sky, and its tail to the right.
Beta Delphini is actually a binary. The two stars were born from the same cloud of gas and dust, and they remain bound to each other by their mutual gravitational pull. They orbit each other once every 27 years.
Look for the beautiful dolphin swimming into view in the east as darkness falls, and climbing high across the south during the night.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Tom Cruise filed a $50 million defamation lawsuit on Wednesday against magazines that claimed he had abandoned his daughter, Suri, following his divorce from actress Katie Holmes.
The "Mission: Impossible" star filed the lawsuit in U.S. court in Los Angeles against the publishers of celebrity magazines "In Touch" and "Life & Style." Cruise's attorney Bert Fields said in a statement.
"Tom is a caring father who dearly loves Suri. She's a vital part of his life and always will be. To say he has 'abandoned' her is a vicious lie. To say it in lurid headlines with a tearful picture of Suri is reprehensible," Cruise's lawyer, Bert Fields, said in a statement
The lawsuit refers to two cover stories published by the magazines in July and September with the headlines "Abandoned by Daddy" and "Abandoned by her dad." The September story from "In Touch" claimed that six-year-old Suri, the only child of Cruise and Holmes, had gone more 44 days without seeing him.
The magazines, owned by privately held German publishing group Bauer Media, did not immediately return calls for comment.
Holmes filed for divorce in June after six years of marriage, seeking sole custody of Suri, in a move that took Cruise by surprise when he was filming in Iceland. They swiftly agreed to a custody arrangement and settled other matters but details have been kept private.
Fields said that despite repeated stories in celebrity media about Cruise and his personal life during his 30-year Hollywood career, the actor rarely resorted to litigation.
"He's not a litigious guy. But when these sleazy peddlers try to make money with disgusting lies about his relationship with his child, you bet he's going to sue," he added.
Fields said Cruise was seeking damages of $50 million and would "undoubtedly give the money to charity" if he wins the case.
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; Editing by Leslie Gevirtz)


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"It's named after his penis."
Stevie Ray Vaughan (October 3, 2009 - August 27, 2012) better known by his stage name Whitesnake, was a Mexican musician best known for writing songs like "Here I Go To The Bathroom" and "Is This My Glove?".
Early life[edit | edit source]
Vaughan was born on October 3, 2009 in Dildo, Newfoundland. He first became interested in the music in the 1960s when he was 9. All the kids who went to school with him made fun of him because he liked "homo music", and the rest of the kids liked rap/hip-hop music. So Vaughan decided to drop out to focus on his music career, and because he felt like he didn't fit in. Vaughan released his self-titled debut album after he dropped out of elementary school. Vaughan earned a cent each time a copy of that album was sold. Vaughan released four more country albums after.
Change of name[edit | edit source]
Vaughan thought of his family to be abusive and a bunch of cock blockers. Each time he tried to bring a girl home, his family blocked his cock. Vaughan knew his life was now officially fucked up, because of dropping out of school, his family, and his interest in country music. Vaughan knew had had to fix this shit right away. In 1967 he saw a poster in the window of a music shop, advertising a newly released thrash metal album. The album was, you guessed it, Metallica - Kill 'Em All. Vaughan bought the album and loved it, and became obsessed with thrash metal music. Humiliated by his family and his roots, Vaughan legaly changed his name to "Whitesnake". Between 1967 and 1977, He released 10 albums as Whitesnake.
White Snake[edit | edit source]
In 1977, former Deep Purple frontman David Coverdale decided to go solo and form a new band. He released his first album "Whitesnake" in 1977. The artist formerly known as Stevie Ray Vaughan was afraid that after Coverdale released that album, he would name his new band after that album. So he legaly changed his name to "White Snake". He released 3 albums as White Snake up until 1979 when Coverdale named his band "White Snake". Vaughan legaly switched his name back to Whitesnake in 1979.
The Second Whitesnake Era (1980 - 1990)[edit | edit source]
As the seventies died and the eighties were born, Whitesnake knew he didn't stand a chance keeping up with what was popular in that decade, so he decided to take a hiatus in 1982. Whitesnake returned in early 1984. When he returned he knew he had to blend in with what was currently popular. What was popular at that time was hair metal music (Eg: Europe, White Lion, Motley Crue). So he decided to change his musical style to hair metal. He released his first hair metal album in 1984 (titled "Fuck Me Up"). In 1987 he achieved commercial success by releasing a self titled album. The album featured the songs; "Still Lost in the Night", "Is This My Glove?", and his first and last number one hit "Here I Go To The Bathroom". All the music videos released for this album, featured his girlfriend and future wife Paris Hilton. The next album ("Slip of Her Boob Out From Her Bra") was released in 1989, and sold a disappointing 41 copies. Before Whitesnake can start his '89/'90 World Tour to support his new album, he discovered that he has taken so many extreme drugs that fucked up his life, music career and his talent, he now sucked at every instrument in existance. Plus, he found out that David Coverdale's band changed their name to "Whitesnake". Whitesnake didn't want to be ripped off anymore, so he legaly changed his name to "Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble". He recorded four albums under that name.
Later career[edit | edit source]
In 1991, Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble showed interest in helping out a career threatened band named White Lion but Vaughan now sucked at every instrument in existance, but due to his tremendous amount of respect and loyalty to the band, they let him join and play guitar. Little did Vaughan know, his guitar wasn't plugged in. But, with a little practice, they actually let him plug it in, and he was almost better than Hendrix. Vaughan played with White Lion on their "Sexual Attraction Tour", but after the tour had ended, he left the band to go bang some whores. White Lion disbanded two days later in 1992.
Quoted from Vaughan from backstage on his 1982 World Tour: "White Lion is my favourite band"
In 1994, Vaughan discovered that their all ready was a band called "Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble". Vaughan was getting really tired of this shit and he knew it had to end once and for all. Vaughan then thought of the dead musician, Elvis Presley. He knew he was dead so and no one can stop him for taking his name, so he changed his name to Elvis Presley. He released 2 albums as Elvis Presley. On March 20, 1997 Elvis was sued by the real Elvis' old record labal, which cost him all the money he owns.
Vaughan decided to take a hiatus, until he found out that David Coverdale's band "Whitesnake", were gone for good. Vaughan decided legaly change his name back to his old stage name, Whitesnake, and get it copyrighted so no one steels it. Whitesnake continued for the rest of his career as "Whitesnake".
Death[edit | edit source]
On August 27, 2012, Whitesnake died after consuming tremendous amounts of pink socks.
Album Discography[edit | edit source]
As Stevie Ray Vaughan[edit | edit source]
- "Stevie Ray Vaughan" (1966)
- "Stevie Ray Vaughan II" (1966)
- "Stevie Ray Vaughan III" (1967)
- "Led Zeppelin IV" (1967)
- "I Piped A Bitch In Texas" (19420)
As Whitesnake[edit | edit source]
- "Snakerape" (1968)
- "In Shit" (1969)
- "Live At Hammer-sith" (1970)
- "Check Out The Sweet Ass Of The Chick On The Front Cover Of This Album" (1971)
- "Ready For Killing" (1972)
- "Live In The Heart of Her Pussey" (1973)
- "Come An' Fuck Me" (1974)
- "Freeze" (1975)
- "Stormwanker" (1976)
- "Come Taste My Cock" (1977)
As White Snake[edit | edit source]
- "The Black Album" (1978)
- "The Sex Album" (1979)
As Whitesnake[edit | edit source]
- "Pizza Sandwich" (1980)
- "I Miss The Seventies All Ready" (1981)
- "Pains An' Killers" (1982)
- "Whitesnake Sells Out" (1984)
- "Fuck Me Up" (1984)
- "Whitesnake" (1987)
- "Slip Of Her Boob Out From Her Bra" (1989)
As Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble[edit | edit source]
- "California Blood" (1990)
- "Couldn't Stand Her Wearing Leather" (1991)
- "Dick to Pussey" (1992)
- "In Debt" (1993)
As Elvis Presley[edit | edit source]
As Whitesnake[edit | edit source]
- "Cheeseburger" (1999)
- "1969" (2000)
- "Into The Fright" (2001)
- "Holes" (2002)
- "Live In The Shadow of My Poo" (2006)
- "Good To Get Fucked" (2008)
- "Still Angry, Still Hungry: The Best of Whitesnake" (2009) And pop rocks
Single Discograpghy[edit | edit source]
As Stevie Ray Vaughan[edit | edit source]
- "Man, I Feel Like I'm Fucked Up" (1966)
- "Icky, Freaky, Fart" (1966)
- "The Black Neck Song" (1967)
- "Highway To Hull City" (1967)
As Whitesnake[edit | edit source]
- "Ain't No Love In The Heart of Your Pussey" (1968)
- "Love To Fuck You Up" (1969)
- "Walkin' In The Shadow Of My Poo" (1971)
- "Fool For Mutherfucking" (original) (1972)
- "Don't Block My Cock Again like you did before" (1973)
Vaughan didn't release any singles from 1974-1981
- "Here I Go To The Bathroom" (original) (1982)
- "Love Ain't A Disaster" (1984)
- "Fast An' Hardcore Sex" (1984)
- "Give Me More Sex" (1984)
- "Guilty Of Raping Your Daughter" (1984)
- "Whitesnake" (1985)
- "Still Lost in the Night" (1987)
- "Fryin' Up My Brain" (new version) (1987)
- "Evil Elfs" (1987)
- "Here I Go To The Bathroom" (new version) (1987)
- "Is This My Glove?" (1987)
- "Give Me All Your Gloves" (1988)
- "Fool For Mutherfucking" (new version) (1989)
- "Slip of Her Boob Out From Her Bra" (1989)
- "The Deeper My Dick Goes Into Your Pussey" (1990)
- "Now My Dick Is Long" (1990)
As Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble[edit | edit source]
As Elvis Presley[edit | edit source]
- "Heartbreak Showgirl" (1994)
- "Don't Let Me See You Drool" (1995)
- "You Were Always On My Nerves" (1996)
- "Ground Hog" (1997)
- "Lick My Cock Tender" (1901)
As Whitesnake[edit | edit source]
- "Don't Stop Fucking Me" (1999)
- "Too Much Porno" (2000)
- "Pissed Panties" (2001)
- "Ready To Fuck" (2006)
Trivia[edit | edit source]
- Ever since before he was born, he has been wearing his trademark cowboy hat. He never took it off.
- One of the very first Metal Gods in history.
- With Timmy Shanahan, founded the best goddammed lemonade stand this side of the mason-dixon. It was bought-out by the Disney corporation in 1982.


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Magic Mahomes: KC quarterback throws 3 TDs, Chiefs go to 8-1
With almost every flick of his right wrist, the legend of Patrick Mahomes grows.
And he's just beginning.
Only 10 games into his NFL career, Kansas City's young quarterback is doing things that have never been done before.
Mahomes passed for 375 yards, threw three touchdown passes — two to Cleveland native Travis Kelce — and continued the best start by a QB in 68 years as Kansas City's impossible-to-handle offense kept rolling with a 37-21 win on Sunday over the Cleveland Browns, who played their first game since coach Hue Jackson's firing.
Kareem Hunt, who also has Cleveland connections, had two scoring runs and one receiving for the Chiefs (8-1), who came in averaging 36.3 points with an offense overloaded with weapons for Mahomes.
The 23-year-old used all of them in winning his first pro matchup against Baker Mayfield and the Browns (2-6-1).
"It's a lot of fun," said Mahomes, who was hurt by a couple drops. "It makes my job a lot easier knowing that I can trust these guys are going to be in the right spot. They're taking care of their business. They're running the routes and making route adjustments on the fly just because they've looked at the film and know how to do those things."
Mahomes and Mayfield didn't match their epic college meeting in 2016, when they combined for more than 1,700 yards in offense. But the Chiefs put on another impressive offensive show with 499 total yards, averaging 8.6 per snap.
Browns defensive end Myles Garrett said preparing for Mayfield and Kansas City's air-and-ground show is nothing like playing against it.
"Their offense has a nice tempo and he gets the ball out of his hand pretty quick, so it's hard to stop," he said. "He spreads the ball around really well and everybody is getting touches. You don't know who it's going to go to next."
In his second season, Mahomes, who made just one start as a rookie, already has 29 TD passes and 3,185 yards, the most by any QB through 10 games since 1950. He has passed for at least 300 yards in eight straight games.
"It's a weird deal — he just goes out there and plays," Chiefs coach Andy Reid said. "He works hard. He loves doing it. He just goes about his business the way that you're supposed to do it."
Cleveland lost its fourth straight, but it looked better under interim coach Gregg Williams than it did with Jackson, fired on Monday after going 3-36-1 in two-plus seasons.
Mayfield threw two TD passes to Duke Johnson and finished 29 of 42 for 297 yards with one interception.
The Browns came in facing a monumental task in trying to slow Mahomes and an offense with speed, depth and no noticeable weaknesses.
Things got much tougher for Cleveland when starting cornerback Damarious Randall (groin) was scratched and E.J. Gaines (concussion) and rookie Denzel Ward (hip) both got hurt in the first half.
Kansas City scored a touchdown on its first three possessions and the Chiefs only had the ball for 11:29 in the first half as the Browns were able to control the clock.
The Chiefs picked up where they left off in the third quarter with Mahomes firing a 13-yard TD pass to Kelce, giving Kansas City a 28-15 lead.
Kelce couldn't stop smiling as he talked about his QB.
"You mean Showtime Mahomes?" he said. "He came in with the understanding this thing could be very special. We added a few pieces to the puzzle and the offensive line is playing lights out. It's a combination of everything that's making him feel comfortable out there."
Mayfield was checked for a concussion and cleared after a questionable hit late in the third quarter.
Mayfield was backpedaling and being wrapped up by Chris Jones when the rookie QB was struck in the helmet by Chiefs defensive back Ron Parker, who came in late but was not penalized. The NFL's on-site medical spotter called down and Mayfield had to leave the game to be checked for a head injury.
"I think the rule is if they see me messing with my helmet, they are going to take precaution," Mayfield said. "When you get hit in the head, your helmet moves around so I am going to shift it so it fits correctly. It is just interesting how it works. I had to come out of the game and take the exam."
The Chiefs won the coin toss for the ninth consecutive week and elected to defer.
A Cleveland native, Hunt bought more than 100 tickets for the game and had them given to the players and coaches at his high school alma mater.
"It's a dream come true that I'm able to do something like that," said Hunt, who rushed for 91 yards. "It's a stadium I used to drive by almost every day."
Browns rookie left tackle Desmond Harrison sat out with an unspecified illness and was replaced by Greg Robinson, a former No. 2 overall pick who made his first start.
Chiefs: Host Arizona on Nov. 11
Browns: Host Atlanta on Nov. 11.


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French Jews Mostly Side With Sarkozy
Like the United States, France will choose a president this year. Little more than two months away from the elections, the conservative president, Nicolas Sarkozy, is running behind the Socialist candidate, François Hollande. Several other candidates are polling well: Marine Le Pen of the extreme right-wing Front National hovers at about 20%, followed by the centrist candidate, François Bayrou, and by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who represents a coalition of parties to the left of the Socialists.
If this were the United States, the Jewish vote would fall heavily on the left side of the spectrum. After all, American Jews have historically voted in overwhelming numbers for Democratic presidential candidates; in 2008, Barack Obama won nearly 80% of the Jewish vote. American Jewry's attachment to liberalism seems to be one of the constants of politics in our country— even when it seems against that population's economic interests. In a way, the corollary to the question "What's wrong with Kansas?" is "What's wrong with the Upper West Side?"
It is equally tempting to ask "What is wrong with Paris?" A recent article in the newspaper Le Figaro announced that the French-Jewish vote falls mostly toward the right. During the previous election, held in 2007, it appears that a significant number of French Jews, particularly those living in Israel, voted for Sarkozy. According to Jérôme Fourquet, director of the French polling organization IFOP, there remains a "pronounced preference" for the right among French Jews. In fact, after observant Catholics, Jews (observant or not) represent the strongest pillar of support for Sarkozy. More than 40% plan to vote for the UMP, Sarkozy's party, far outstripping the party's general support, tottering at a feeble 26%.
Is it possible, then, that "Jewish vote" is, like "French toast," a phrase that gets lost in translation somewhere over the Atlantic? Not surprising, there is little agreement on the answer. Arthur Goldhammer, a veteran commentator on French politics, thinks the term isn't really an apt one for describing how French Jews vote.
"Among my French Jewish friends," he observed, "the range of political attitudes is quite wide, much wider than among my American Jewish friends, all of whom are liberal democrats." But, he noted, there is a far greater range of options in France. "Apart from the Front National," he suggested, "there is nothing that is 'beyond the Pale' in the way that American Republicans have become for many Jews (although I suppose American neoconservative Jews stand as an exception to this rule)."
Along with the greater variety of political parties, the variety of Jews is also great. As much as half of the French Jewish community, which numbers about 600,000, is Sephardic, and they tend to have their ancestral roots in Muslim countries, North Africa in particular. As a result, their attitude toward the Middle East, not to mention toward French Muslims, differs dramatically from that of their Ashkenazi peers. This is one reason that French and American Jewry seem to come from two different worlds: Quite simply, they do. For Pierre Haski, editor-in-chief of the French online journal Rue89, the difference is telling: American Jews, he notes, "have a very remote relationship with the Arab and Muslim world, even if the dividing line of the Arab-Israeli conflict is the same."
Born in a Tunisian-Jewish family, Haski moved to France as a teenager. As a student he started on the left — he jokes that in the 1960s, he "felt more Maoist than Jewish" — and during his long and distinguished career in journalism he has remained on the left: Rue89 has been a merciless critic of Sarkozy's government; yet Haski is an outlier. Many of his fellow "Tunes," which is the moniker given to French-Tunisian Jews, have moved steadily toward the right over the past 20 years, as have their Algerian and Moroccan peers. Jolted by the experience in 2005 of rioting youths, many of whom were of North African ancestry — setting ablaze cars and buildings, convinced that the French left's criticism of Israel's policies in the occupied territories is a stealth form of anti-Semitism and worried that France's growing Muslim population threatens its secular traditions — these Jews are rallying to law and order politicians on the right, like Sarkozy.
For this reason, Haski insists on the reality of a "Jewish vote" in France. Of course, he acknowledges, this is tantamount to heresy in his country. "It's supposed to be an infamy to reason in community terms in relations to political choices in secular France." Of course, if IFOP is right, 40% hardly represents a monolithic, or even near-monolithic, vote. It is equally important to recognize that just as there were Roosevelt Jews in the United States, there remains an enduring tradition of Mitterrand Jews in France. One need only invoke the name of Léon Blum to recall the historical attachment between French Jews and socialism.
Yet 40% remains a significant number. The irony implicit in Haski's claim is that the French-Jewish vote is the mirror image of the American Jewish vote. And the French reflection might soon be distorted even further to the right. In her quest for respectability and support, Marine Le Pen has distanced herself from her father's anti-Semitism — a distance that Jean Marie Le Pen, with his repeated verbal "gaffes," nevertheless keeps shortening. Her recent trip to the United States, when she met the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, and her desire to travel officially to Israel are just two signs of her efforts to gather the support of French Jews.
Official Jewish organizations like CRIF, the Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions, continue to reject Le Pen's efforts at a rapprochement, but that may change when the CRIF's own leadership changes over the next few years. Moreover, Le Pen's calls for an alliance have not gone unrequited in other quarters. An organization that calls itself Union des Français Juifs was recently created for the express purpose of supporting Le Pen's presidential ambitions.
Whether this new organization has the support of anyone other than its founder, Jacques Rosen, is unclear. Still, its very existence, along with the rightward movement of French Jewry in general, does raise an important question. If liberalism is the religion of secularized American Jews, is it possible that illiberalism will become the religion of greater numbers of secularized French Jews? This spring's elections may offer an answer.
Robert Zaretsky is a professor of history at the Honors College at the University of Houston. His most recent book is "Albert Camus: Elements of a Life" (Cornell University Press, 2010).


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John Buell is a columnist for The Progressive Populist and a faculty adjunct at Cochise College. His most recent book is Politics, Religion, and Culture in an Anxious Age.
President Obama may soon face a three-headed monster. Though a tepid recovery is underway in the United States, unemployment remains high and some of the tools used to promote recovery carry significant risks of their own. Worse still, the specter of a Eurozone bankruptcy haunts the world economy. Finally a Eurozone collapse itself may trigger the worst political crises since the height of the Cold War. On both sides of the Atlantic, political leaders are beholden to investment bankers, who in turn are operating in a predatory fashion.
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Here in the US any fiscal policy, even the modest jobs initiative proposed by President Obama in 2011, remains on hold. Worse still, Congress and the President are set to begin negotiations further to trim the deficit in an effort to avert a self-imposed "fiscal cliff."
With fiscal policy paralyzed, all eyes are on the Federal Reserve. Its controversial Quantitative Easing 3 (QE3) includes two elements. First is the promise to keep interest rates low well into any recovery. Secondly, the Fed has committed to buy long term assets, including the infamous collateralized debt obligations, from its member banks. These steps have the endorsement of New York Times and Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman. Krugman has long—and quite properly—advocated expansionary fiscal policy. But absent that approach, he argues that a credible promise of inflation, which erodes the value of savings, will encourage savers to consume and invest.
Reasonable as this suggestion is, it disregards another possibility suggested by several left economists (see for instance comments on the blog Naked Capitalism). These economists include post-Keynesians like Steve Keen, Philip Pilkington, Michael Hudson, and modern monetary theorists Randall Wray and Stephanie Kelton. They argue that investment decisions are not determined merely by interest rates and that unpredictable and volatile expectations play an enormous role in a crisis. Low interest rates and the fear of inflation may stimulate investment. But it may also encourage commodity or foreign currency speculation.
More broadly, Krugman denies the role that investment banks play in creating money and thereby fostering booms and busts. In this regard the signal Fed purchases of junk securities sends to the banks is especially dangerous. It constitutes one further message to banks that their speculative excesses will be backed up by the central bank. In a worst case scenario banks will take the extended low interest environment as an occasion to engage in new commodity speculation and securitization in the confidence that they can get out before any collapse and/or be bailed out in the wake of that collapse.
In Europe, the situation is even more dire. I recently had the pleasure of attending a conference on the Eurozone at Columbia University Law School. Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis was one of the featured speakers. He highlighted the damage that the continent-wide embrace of fiscal austerity is doing to citizens across the Eurozone and Great Britain. Spain and Greece are now experiencing conditions fully comparable to 1929. Even formerly prosperous and well- run businesses cannot find the short- term credit on which most business depends.
In Europe's case a false diagnosis leads to a counterproductive cure. The US media routinely characterize Spain, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Portugal, the so-called PIGS, as just that, governments that have overspent their means. Such accusations are totally wrong in the case of Spain and Ireland, which were both models of fiscal rectitude before their banks blew up. Other than Greece, the remaining states had fiscal problems, but these were manageable. Rather than a matter of public sector profligacy, the Eurozone crisis is anchored in its faulty architecture. Its nations share a common currency but no common fiscal (centralized tax and spending) mechanism.
Some brief background is useful here. From the early fifties the core European states had a common market but no common currency. The Lira, the Deutschmark, the Frank, etc. floated against each other, changing daily in relative value. In practice these floating arrangements provided some protection against "asymmetric shocks," such as a sudden decline in world appetite for Italian wine. In such an event, nations could allow their currencies to devalue and thus become more competitive. Such devaluations were not without pain, especially inflation, and could lead to competitive devaluations by other nations. Nonetheless, devaluations did give damaged economies the prospect of return to prosperity.
In Europe, with the creation of a common currency zone, where a Euro in a Spanish bank was worth just as much as a Euro in German banks, it became easy and attractive for German bankers to invest in houses and commercial real estate in Greece, Ireland, and Spain. Banks made billions. Then a real estate bubble that would make Nevada look like the epitome of prudence burst. Banks became insolvent, lending and economic growth collapsed. Ireland and Spain's government debt burdens were a consequence of government decisions to bail out their profligate private sector banks rather than of spending on ordinary citizens. Nonetheless, these nations had no way to devalue except to wait for a long slow process of unemployment leading to wage declines—even as the core European states strove to control their own "labor costs," thus depressing their demand for foreign goods.
Thus far Spain and Italy have not defaulted on their bonds, but each rescue package has involved one step forward and two back. Europe has enacted a pure fiscal orthodoxy more burdensome than even current US policy. Using a US analogy, Varoufakis imagined what would happen if following the housing bubble collapse, Nevada had been asked to recapitalize its own banks and had been unable to avail itself of unemployment compensation from Washington.
The levels of austerity imposed in Europe have not been seen in any advanced economy since the thirties. The self-inflicted crisis has been used as an occasion for a full- fledged attack on the welfare state. Struggling states are told they receive no assistance unless they meet the demands of the German- run ECB. Austerity is promoted as a means of saving the people from its own excesses, but in fact is intended to save German banks from theirs. And it will fail. As economies shrink, tax receipts do also. Debt grows.
Worse still, the demands on the peripheral European states are sold to the Germans on nationalistic grounds. The Greek and Spanish grasshoppers have lived lives of excess while industrious German ants labor away and sacrifice for a rainy day. Such fairy tales can only feed even more extreme forms of xenophobia. Varoufakis reminds us that the politics of hate and xenophobia thrive amidst pain. In Greece, the neo-fascist Golden Dawn is currently registering 22% in the polls, but even more ominous is the way mainstream parties are embracing some of its demands.
A fractured Eurozone with banks and states defaulting on obligations to each other and surely to US banks, a second banking crisis here just waiting to happen, rising nationalism and authoritarian or even fascist governments in Europe. All this awaits the next administration.
In this regard, Varoufakis's advice to his European counterparts would apply equally to US elites, especially in light of a fourth great crisis, Sandy, and what it represents: "While designing the Recovery, we better beware: The return to growth should not come at any price. What grows matters. We want growth in sectors that generate good things that humanity needs more of and a deep deflation of the toxic sectors that make life nasty, brutish and short—from physical pollutants to real estate bubbles and toxic derivatives. We must aim at the mobilisation of idle savings into medium to long-term investments that serve genuine human needs—rather than producing new bubbles for the purpose of dealing with the ill effects of previous bubbles that burst disastrously. None of this will be accomplished by markets caught up in an equilibrium of fear that is reinforced daily by universal austerity."


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Woman sues Google after highway knockdown
Did it say play with the traffic?
An LA woman is suing Google after accusing its mapping service of encouraging her to walk along a high speed State Route in Utah.
The Salt Lake City Tribune reports that Lauren Rosenberg's suit claims that while visiting Salt Lake City, Utah she used Google Maps via her BlackBerry for directions to to walk from 96 Daly Ave to 1710 Prospector Ave in Park City.
According to the suit the directions advised her to perambulate along Deer Valley Drive, otherwise known as State Route 224.
This, according to the suit, is an area "where vehicles travel at a high rate of speed and [is] devoid of pedestrian sidewalks".
And unfortunately, one driver struck Rosenberg, "causing her to suffer severe physical, emotional, and mental injuries... and causing her to incur medical expenses in an amount exceeding $100,000".
A quick rummage through Google Maps confirms that this is indeed the service's advised route for foot sloggers, though on a PC it includes a warning about possible dangers. It is not clear if the warnings show up on mobile devices.
The suit states: "Google undertook the duty to exercise reasonable care in providing safe directions to patrons of its Google Maps service. [But] Google failed to warn plaintiff Rosenberg of said known dangers..."
Rosenberg - who is also suing the driver - is asking to the court to award her damages in excess of $100,000.
It is of course puzzling why Rosenberg did not use the evidence of her own eyes to decide Google Maps' instructions were best ignored.
Almost as puzzling as why she has set the lower bar for suing the world's biggest ad broker at a mere $100,000. ®


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The Tears of BenghaziBy Alan Caruba May 13, 2013The Hollywood version of heroes is that of large, muscular men who show no fear and little emotion after a confrontation with the enemy. The images that come to mind are Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Bruce Willis who, while not a muscleman, has the swagger we associate with movie heroes. On Wednesday, on Capitol Hill, three men, Greg Hicks who was deputy chief of mission in Libya, second in command to the assassinated Ambassador, Chris Stevens; Eric Nordstrom, a diplomatic security officer who was formerly the regional security officer in Libya; and Mark Thompson, a former Marine and an official with the State Department's Counterterrorism Bureau; sat at a table and gave short statements followed by answers to the questions they were asked. In real life, heroes often look like someone in middle management. It was wrong—even demeaning—for the media to call them "whistle blowers." These men were patriots. Who else would go to a war zone to represent their nation or to protect its highest diplomat there? At the hearing they wore suits and ties. And, when called on to tell the truth, they sometimes choked up from the mix of emotions that flowed through them from memories of colleagues lost in combat and the awful realization that the nation for which they put their lives on the line, the nation they served with honor, left them defenseless to come to the aid of those colleagues. Looming in the room were the ghosts of the dead ambassador, two security personnel; Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods were both former Navy SEALS, contracted by the Central Intelligence Agency, and Sean Smith, a ten-year veteran of the State Department and on temporary assignment in Libya as an information officer for the embassy. Smith, an Air Force veteran, left behind two young children. The testimony was emotional at times as the witnesses had to pause to regain their composure. They were a sharp contrast to the former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, who became annoyed by the questions she was asked at a hearing on Benghazi. "What difference does it make?" she replied angrily to a question from Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin. "With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night decided to go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make?" Clinton asked the Republican Senator. "It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again." Did she really believe it was just "because of guys out for a walk one night decided to go kill Americans"? On the anniversary of 9/11? Did she and the President really believe that the attack was because of a video? That is what they told Americans in the wake of the attack. That is what our ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, was sent out to say on five Sunday morning news shows. What emerged from the hearings was the failure and the refusal of the State Department, the CIA, and the Department of Defense to activate any of the resources they had to send any forces to defend the consulate. Someone had to make a conscious choice to do that. Someone had to tell those forces to "stand down. As Hicks said, "I am a career public servant. Until the aftermath of Benghazi, I loved every day of my job." As one watched, his quiet presentation was marked with moments of emotion. He was the last man to speak by phone to Ambassador Stevens. Thompson said he was rebuffed by the White House when he asked for specialized team known as FEST—men trained specifically to respond to an attack. Asked how a team of Special Forces personnel were not given authorization to fly from Tripoli to Benghazi responded, Hicks said "They were furious." Rep. Darrell Issa, (R-CA) the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, told Fox News, "The question is, where's the accountability for lying to the American people?" That's what the President of the United States did. That's what the former Secretary of State did. And that's why the White House Press Secretary, Jay Carney, replied to a question about Benghazi dismissing it saying the attack had happened "a long time ago." The loss of the lives of four patriots and the testimony of their colleagues, still mourning their loss, is sad, but how much sadder still is the fact that our great nation is led and represented by such soulless people?
Alan Caruba is an American public relations counselor and freelance writer who is a frequent critic of environmentalism, Islam and research on global warming. In the late 1970s Caruba founded the PR firm The Caruba Organization, and in 1990, the National Anxiety Center, which identifies itself as "a clearinghouse for information about 'scare campaigns' designed to influence public policy and opinion" on such subjects as global warming, ozone depletion and DDT. |


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-- 'He Saved Hundreds': Army Chaplain To Get Medal Of Honor
-- Wild Weather Warning: Tornadoes, Heavy Snows, High Winds
-- Will North Korea Claim Victory And Stand Down?
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-- "3 Japanese Carmakers Recall Millions Of Autos Over Faulty Airbags." ( USA Today)
-- "Britain Beefs Up Security Ahead Of Thatcher Funeral." ( CNN)
-- "Senate Confirms Jewell As Next Interior Secretary." ( Politico)
-- "Report: March Home Foreclosures Drop To Lowest Level In Five Years." ( AP)
-- "World Shifting Away From Use Of Death Penalty, Says Human Rights Group." ( Amnesty International)
-- "Man Says Zombies Led Him To Flee In Stolen Tractor Trailer." ( Huffington Post)
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Many people like to invest in stocks and others prefer real estate. Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) allow you to combine the two. If you like the idea of the steady modest income that real estate allows without having to deal with tenants or buyers you may want to investigate REITs.
Created in the US in 1960, REITs are a type of company that must invest most of their money in real estate to produce income and must distribute 90% of that income back to shareholders.
Personal finance blogger Mr. Money Mustache found that several REITs make a better return than the rental house he has to occasionally maintain. The REIT example he uses, Senior Housing Properties offers a 6.86% dividend rate, which means a $1,000 investment gives you $68.60/year.
The main drawback of REITs is that as any stock they have a level of risk and also dividend income from a REIT is treated as regular taxable income. But if you're looking for somewhere to park your money and live modestly off the interest, REITs may be up your alley. Do your own research and perhaps consult with a financial planner to make sure you're getting the best return for your investments. Photo by Kevin Wong.
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- Part Number:1926
- Part Number Title:Safety and Health Regulations for Construction
- Subpart:1926 Subpart CC
- Subpart Title:Cranes and Derricks in Construction
- Standard Number:
- Title:Operator Certification: Written Examination: Technical Knowledge Criteria
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Appendix C to Subpart CC of Part 1926 - Operator Certification: Written Examination: Technical Knowledge Criteria
This appendix contains information for employers, accredited testing organizations, auditors and government entities developing criteria for a written examination to test an individual's technical knowledge relating to the operation of cranes.
(a) General technical information.
(1) The functions and limitations of the crane and attachments.
(2) Wire rope:
(i) Background information necessary to understand the inspection and removal from service criteria in § 1926.1413 and § 1926.1414.
(ii) Capacity and when multi-part rope is needed.
(iii) Relationship between line pull and safe working load.
(iv) How to determine the manufacturer's recommended rope for the crane.
(3) Rigging devices and their use, such as:
(i) Slings.
(ii) Spreaders.
(iii) Lifting beams.
(iv) Wire rope fittings, such as clips, shackles and wedge sockets.
(v) Saddles (softeners).
(vi) Clamps (beams).
(4) The technical limitations of protective measures against electrical hazards:
(i) Grounding.
(ii) Proximity warning devices.
(iii) Insulated links.
(iv) Boom cages.
(v) Proximity to electric power lines, radii, and microwave structures.
(5) The effects of load share and load transfer in multi-crane lifts.
(6) Basic crane terms.
(7) The basics of machine power flow systems.
(i) Mechanical.
(ii) Electrical.
(iii) Pneumatic.
(iv) Hydraulic.
(v) Combination.
(8) The significance of the instruments and gauge readings.
(9) The effects of thermal expansion and contraction in hydraulic cylinders.
(10) Background information necessary to understand the requirements of pre-operation and inspection.
(11) How to use the safety devices and operational aids required under § 1926.1415 and § 1926.1416.
(12) The difference between duty-cycle and lifting operations.
(13) How to calculate net capacity for every possible configuration of the equipment using the manufacturer's load chart.
(14) How to use manufacturer-approved attachments and their effect on the equipment.
(15) How to obtain dimensions, weight, and center of gravity of the load.
(16) The effects of dynamic loading from:
(i) Wind.
(ii) Stopping and starting.
(iii) Impact loading.
(iv) Moving with the load.
(17) The effect of side loading.
(18) The principles of backward stability.
(b) Site information.
(1) How to identify the suitability of the supporting ground/surface to support the expected loads of the operation. Elements include:
(i) Weaknesses below the surface (such as voids, tanks, loose fill).
(ii) Weaknesses on the surface (such as retaining walls, slopes, excavations, depressions).
(2) Proper use of mats, blocking/cribbing, outriggers, stabilizers, or crawlers.
(3) Identification of site hazards such as power lines, piping, and traffic.
(4) How to review operation plans with supervisors and other workers (such as the signal person), including how to determine working height, boom length, load radius, and travel clearance.
(5) How to determine if there is adequate room for extension of crawlers or outriggers/stabilizers and counterweights.
(c) Operations.
(1) How to pick, carry, swing and place the load smoothly and safely on rubber tires and on outriggers/stabilizers or crawlers (where applicable).
(2) How to communicate at the site with supervisors, the crew and the signal person.
(3) Proper procedures and methods of reeving wire ropes and methods of reeving multiple-part lines and selecting the proper load block and/or ball.
(4) How to react to changes in conditions that affect the safe operation of the equipment.
(5) How to shut down and secure the equipment properly when leaving it unattended.
(6) Know how to apply the manufacturer's specifications for operating in various weather conditions, and understand how environmental conditions affect the safe operation of the equipment.
(7) How to properly level the equipment.
(8) How to verify the weight of the load and rigging prior to initiating the lift.
(9) How to determine where the load is to be picked up and placed and how to verify the radii.
(10) Know basic rigging procedures.
(11) How to carry out the shift inspection required in this subpart.
(12) Know that the following operations require specific procedures and skill levels:
(i) Multi-crane lifts. (ii) Hoisting personnel.
(iii) Clamshell/dragline operations.
(iv) Pile driving and extracting.
(v) Concrete operations, including poured-in-place and tilt-up.
(vi) Demolition operations.
(vii) Operations on water.
(viii) Magnet operations.
(ix) Multi-drum operations.
(13) Know the proper procedures for operating safely under the following conditions:
(i) Traveling with suspended loads.
(ii) Approaching a two-block condition.
(iii) Operating near power lines.
(iv) Hoisting personnel.
(v) Using other than full outrigger/crawler or stabilizer extensions.
(vi) Lifting loads from beneath the surface of the water.
(vii) Using various approved counterweight configurations.
(viii) Handling loads out of the operator's vision ("operating in the blind").
(ix) Using electronic communication systems for signal communication.
(14) Know the proper procedures for load control and the use of hand-held tag lines.
(15) Know the emergency response procedure for:
(i) Fires.
(ii) Power line contact.
(iii) Loss of stability.
(iv) Control malfunction.
(v) Two-blocking.
(vi) Overload.
(vii) Carrier or travel malfunction.
(16) Know how to properly use outriggers and stabilizers in accordance with manufacturer specifications.
(d) Use of load charts.
(1) Know the terminology necessary to use load charts.
(2) Know how to ensure that the load chart is the appropriate chart for the equipment in its particular configuration and application.
(3) Know how to use load charts. This includes knowing:
(i) The operational limitations of load charts and footnotes.
(ii) How to relate the chart to the configuration of the crane, crawlers, or outriggers/stabilizers extended or retracted, jib erected or offset, and various counterweight configurations.
(iii) The difference between structural capacity and capacity limited by stability.
(iv) What is included in capacity ratings.
(v) The range diagram and its relationship to the load chart.
(vi) The work area chart and its relationship to the load chart.
(vii) Where to find and how to use the "parts-of-line" information.
(4) Know how to use the load chart together with the load indicators and/or load moment devices.
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- Chrysler Group LLC says its CEO in South Africa was shot in the abdomen during a robbery in the country and is responding to medical treatment.
Chrysler spokesman Richard Sloman said Wednesday that CEO Trent Barcroft was shot Saturday during a robbery outside of Johannesburg. Sloman said that Barcroft, a United States citizen, was still in intensive care at a hospital Wednesday but was responding well to treatment.
A spokesman at the U.S. Embassy in South Africa said it was aware of the shooting, but had no comment.
Violent crime remains a widespread worry in South Africa. A U.S. Embassy employee was stabbed to death in January.
Chrysler, based in Auburn Hills, Michigan, is majority owned by Italy's Fiat SpA. It is the No. 3 car manufacturer in the U.S.


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Guitarist Buzz Feiten has launched a new line of guitars.
Santa Monica, CA (June 19, 2013) -- Legendary guitar player Buzz Feiten announced today that his newly launched Buzz Feiten Guitars began taking orders from select guitar dealers on June 19, 2013. The new company manufactures and sells a line of electric guitars created entirely by Buzz Feiten.
The new line consists of five models, each featuring its own combination of woods and technical specifications in order to create a distinct acoustic personality. According to Buzz, "each of the five models represents my experience with a particular type of guitar, and each has its own unique features that give it a personality and acoustic signature of its own."
The five models, which can be viewed on the company's website, each have an alder core in combination with one of four different tonewoods – spruce, sugar pine, swamp ash or flame maple. According to Feiten: "Each wood has a tonal identity of its own, and by using a combination of instinct and experience, I've been able to create a unique acoustic signature for each model, so that the Player can choose the perfect match to fit their playing style."
Each model also features its own Buzz Feiten specially designed pickups which are Alinco 5 and hum-cancelling. "These pickups are designed to produce a warm, vintage tone, with incredible transparency and punch," Feiten said. Four of the models also feature a custom-spaced, nickel-plated top-loaded bridge designed to improve playability and sustain and capture a vintage feel.
The five models have names which suggest their individual personalities. TPro, Blues Pro, Classic Pro, Elite Pro and the top-of-the-line Signature Elite. MAP prices range from a low of $1995 for the T-Pro to $2895 for the Signature Elite.
Feiten has had a legendary playing career, beginning in 1968 with the Butterfield Blues Band. Over the years he has played and recorded with many well-known artists and groups, including Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, The Rascals, Gregg Allman, Wilson Pickett, Kenny Logins, James Taylor, Aretha Franklin, Dave Weckl, Boz Scaggs, and other great blues, rock, jazz, pop, and fusion musicians. His discography includes well over 100 recordings with various bands and artists.
During his extensive playing career, Feiten developed a deep understanding of the technical and scientific foundation supporting the acoustics of fretted instruments. This led him to the conclusion that the commonly accepted method for tuning and intonating guitars was flawed. He therefore developed and patented a unique tuning system which consists of a series of pitch offset formulae to compensate for this flaw and achieve a more accurate, scientifically based tuning system.
Feiten's understanding of the science of fretted instruments, coupled with his extensive playing experience, led him to his vision for a new and revolutionary guitar which incorporates all those instinctive and scientific changes he envisioned. These unique features have now been incorporated into the new line of Buzz Feiten Guitars.
To Feiten, these guitars are the culmination of a life-long ambition to build the very best electric guitar available to the best players. Speaking to this ambition, Feiten said: "The guitar has been my life. Throughout it I have had a vision to create the ultimate guitar for the serious player. Now I can say 'here it is.'"
Buzz Feiten Guitars is being operated as a division of Precision Musical Instruments, LLC, an entity created by investors to provide the financing necessary to launch and sustain the new line of Buzz Feiten Guitars. Anthony Picadio, one of the owners and the senior executive of the new company, emphasized the level of commitment being made to support the Feiten efforts. "We have given Buzz everything he has needed to build guitars of the highest quality and we will continue to aggressively support an ambitious marketing program to spread the word about these incredible instruments."
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Jan. 8
A woman at 8:43 a.m. reported a child loose in the roadway on Pennock Street. Police responded and reunited the child with a responsible party.
A caller at 8:39 a.m. reported check fraud.
A man at 9:51 p.m. asked police to do a welfare check and be on the lookout for a juvenile child.
Jan. 9
A caller at 10:01 a.m. reported a theft at a Hopkins Way home. Police responded and arrested a 45-year-old man for burglary, third-degree theft and fourth-degree misconduct involving a controlled substance.
A man and woman at 12:52 p.m. came to the police station and reported suspicious bank transactions.
Police at 8:14 p.m. contacted a person at a Bayview Avenue park in possession of marijuana.
Jan. 10
Police at 2:35 a.m. contacted a 39-year-old woman at a Sterling Highway address and arrested her for driving under the influence, drugs, and driving while license revoked.
A person at 4:12 a.m. made a 911 call of a disturbance at a Bunnell Avenue address. Police responded and arrested a 45-year-old man for resisting arrest, harassment, disorderly conduct and criminal trespass.
A man at 11:25 a.m. reported a hit-and-run incident at a Sterling Highway address.
A person at 1:06 p.m. reported a man with a sign standing in the road at the corner of Lake Street and the Sterling Highway. Police issued him a disorderly conduct warning.
Police at 5:55 p.m. served a search warrant on a Main Street home in relation to a robbery in December.
Jan. 11
A man at 8:12 p.m. reported a domestic dispute at a Kachemak Drive address. Police arrested a 25-year-old woman on a probation violation.
A woman at 2:05 p.m. reported a theft from a Bay Avenue home.
A man at 2:20 p.m. reported a man on a sidewalk holding a sign reading "need woman" at the Lake Street stoplight. Police did a welfare check on the man and took him to South Peninsula Hospital.
Police at 10:39 p.m. reported finding an abandoned bicycle on Pioneer Avenue.
Police at 11:23 p.m. arrested a 30-year-old man for driving while license suspended.
Jan. 12
Police at 12:37 a.m. saw a woman lying in a parking lot of an East End Road bar and provided her transportation to a hotel.
A woman at 12:41 a.m. reported a domestic dispute at a Fairview Avenue address. Police responded.
Several people at 9:02 p.m. reported a verbal dispute on Klondike Avenue. Police responded and found a party in progress with people very drunk. Police issued disorderly conduct warnings.
Police at 10:52 p.m. contacted a drunk man with a sign on the side of Lake Street and the Sterling Highway. Police gave the man transportation to the hospital.
Jan. 13
A man at 5:54 a.m. reported a taxi cab taken for a joyride. The caller recovered the cab. Police gave the caller a damage report form.


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Nov. 25-27, 2022
Full Paper Due: Nov. 18, 2022
Abstract Due: Nov. 18, 2022
Audience Registration Due: Nov. 25, 2022
Important NOTE (by November 7th, 2022): Due to COVID-19 epidemic situation all over the world, most countries still maintain a strict policy of no-gathering, no-entering and leaving the country, and 14-day quarantine. We have to postpone the conference till 2023.
The 13th International Conference on Environmental Pollution and Public Health (EPPH 2022) will be held during November 25-27, 2022 in Guilin, China. This Conference will cover issues on Ecotoxicology and Health Effect, Environmental and Ecological Management, Environmental Biochemistry, Environmental Biotechnology, Environmental Chemistry, Health, and Safety Issues etc. It dedicates to creating a stage for exchanging the latest research results and sharing the advanced research methods in related fields.
Located in the northeast of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in south China, Guilin is considered to be the pearl of China's thriving tourist industry on account of the natural beauty and historic treasures. Covering an area of about 27,800 square kilometers (10,734 square miles), the city is rather compact when compared with other major tourist cities in the country. The stunning landscape in which the city is situated has a kind of magic that is all its own. The strangely shaped hills or karsts, with the verdant vegetation ranging from bamboos to conifers together with crystal clear waters and wonderful caves make the city such an appealing destination. It is also an important cultural city with a history of more than 2,000 years. The city has been the political, economic and cultural center of Guangxi since the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127). We look forward to seeing you in Guilin!
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Court Rake - Hand Model - 1/4" Panels
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Court Rake - Hand Model - 1/4" Panels
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The Court Rake was designed as a daily grooming tool for subsurface irrigated Har-Tru courts, including HydroCourt, HydroGrid and Cal-Cap. The Court Rake is used daily in place of a drag broom on subsurface irrigated courts to combat algae and keep the top surface from becoming too hard and pasty. When used regularly, the Court Rake provides courts with a "corduroy" look and keeps them in a healthy condition. The Court Rake can be pulled over line tapes without damaging them. This Court Rake hand model is designed to be pulled by hand. It is 6' wide, constructed of heavy-duty steel and contains six (6) panels of 1/4" steel teeth. Replacement teeth panels are available.


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Malcolm Gladwell in The New Yorker:
The world, we are told, is in the midst of a revolution. The new tools of social media have reinvented social activism. With Facebook and Twitter and the like, the traditional relationship between political authority and popular will has been upended, making it easier for the powerless to collaborate, coördinate, and give voice to their concerns. When ten thousand protesters took to the streets in Moldova in the spring of 2009 to protest against their country's Communist government, the action was dubbed the Twitter Revolution, because of the means by which the demonstrators had been brought together. A few months after that, when student protests rocked Tehran, the State Department took the unusual step of asking Twitter to suspend scheduled maintenance of its Web site, because the Administration didn't want such a critical organizing tool out of service at the height of the demonstrations. "Without Twitter the people of Iran would not have felt empowered and confident to stand up for freedom and democracy," Mark Pfeifle, a former national-security adviser, later wrote, calling for Twitter to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Where activists were once defined by their causes, they are now defined by their tools. Facebook warriors go online to push for change. "You are the best hope for us all," James K. Glassman, a former senior State Department official, told a crowd of cyber activists at a recent conference sponsored by Facebook, A. T. & T., Howcast, MTV, and Google. Sites like Facebook, Glassman said, "give the U.S. a significant competitive advantage over terrorists. Some time ago, I said that Al Qaeda was 'eating our lunch on the Internet.' That is no longer the case. Al Qaeda is stuck in Web 1.0. The Internet is now about interactivity and conversation."
These are strong, and puzzling, claims. Why does it matter who is eating whose lunch on the Internet? Are people who log on to their Facebook page really the best hope for us all? As for Moldova's so-called Twitter Revolution, Evgeny Morozov, a scholar at Stanford who has been the most persistent of digital evangelism's critics, points out that Twitter had scant internal significance in Moldova, a country where very few Twitter accounts exist.
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Not sure if this question belongs here, on the main site, or not on TeX.SX at all. Let me know if it belongs somewhere else.
I have recently made some leaps in my knowledge of LaTeX, in particular its packages. I am very impressed by projects like beamer
and tikz
, so I really wonder: how do package authors find the time? It appears many are in academia. Being in academia myself, I know how time-pressured it can be. When Knuth wrote his computer programming book, he got side-tracked and developed TeX for many years. On a smaller scale, there appears to be years of time in some. Do authors receive specific grants for package development, or do they really work crazy hours in evenings and weekends (where other academics would spend time on their science)?


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Preparing to race well can be a complicated process where it seems as if the stars need to align just right for you to race to your potential. But, if you commit to understanding your individual strengths and weaknesses as a runner, you can simplify the process while getting into the best shape of your life in time for race day.
"Every runner is unique. You have to think about your training differently than what you might be used to. [Most runners believe] the plan drives the ship," says exercise physiologist and USATF-certified running coach Greg McMillan. "But the runner should drive the plan. Take the training plan as your template and move things around based on your strengths and weaknesses."
Step one: Figure out how quickly you adapt to training stimuli.
McMillan, founder and head coach of McMillan Running Company, which provides online coaching to adult runners, and coach of McMillan Elite, a nonprofit Olympic development team based in Flagstaff, Arizona, suggests that runners think about training in different zones: endurance, stamina, speed and sprint. Think about how you've adapted in the past to workouts that fall into these four zones—for example, long runs would fall under the endurance zone, and 400-meter repeats would fall into the speed zone.
More: Train for Your Muscle Fiber Type
McMillan's Run Training Zones: A Cheat Sheet
Endurance Zone
- Running at a slow, easy pace where your heart rate is between 60 and 75 percent of its maximum
- Breathing should be comfortable
- Goal: to build endurance
- What happens physiologically as you adapt: fewer heartbeats are needed to deliver blood to the working muscles; increase in capillaries, which deliver a greater volume of blood per heartbeat to the muscles; muscles are encouraged to store more glycogen (your first source of energy); you become more efficient at burning fat as a fuel source
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One of the most popular forms of cloud computing is software-as-a-service (SaaS), defined as a software distribution model in which a service provider hosts applications for customers and makes them available to these customers via the internet.
SaaS is one of the three major categories of cloud services, along with infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS).
Given its ease of access, SaaS has become a common delivery model for many types of business applications, and it has been incorporated into the delivery strategies of enterprise software vendors.
There are SaaS offerings available for a variety of business applications, including email and collaboration, customer relationship management (CRM), billing/payroll processing, sales management, human resources management, financial management, database management, enterprise resourcing planning (ERP), content management, and document editing and management.
How SaaS is delivered
As with other cloud services, organizations typically pay for SaaS through a subscription fee, on a monthly or annual basis. This contrasts with the traditional model of paying for software through a perpetual license, with an upfront cost and optional ongoing support fee.
SaaS providers usually price applications based on some type of usage parameters. For example, they might charge based on the number of people using the application, the number of transactions, or some other measure of usage.
Users typically access the applications using a web browser; in some organizations, they may also use a thin-client terminal.
Most SaaS offerings are based on a multitenant architecture, in which a single version of an application is used for all the service provider's customers.
Organizations using SaaS applications can change configuration settings and customize the software, within certain parameters, to meet their particular needs. But they can't customize its code or features to the same degree that is sometimes possible for enterprise software they install locally on users' PCs or provide from their own datacenters.
How SaaS can save enterprises money
Among the top reasons for using SaaS is it saves organizations from installing and running applications on their own systems. That eliminates or at least reduces the associated costs of hardware purchases and maintenance and of software and support. The initial setup cost for a SaaS application is also generally lower than it for equivalent enterprise software purchased via a site license.
Sometimes, the use of SaaS can also reduce the long-term costs of software licensing, though that depends on the pricing model for the individual SaaS offering and the enterprise's usage patterns. In fact, it's possible for SaaS to cost more than traditional software licenses. This is an area IT organizations should explore carefully.
SaaS also provides enterprises the flexibility inherent with cloud services: They can subscribe to a SaaS offering as needed rather than having to buy software licenses and install the software on a variety of computers. The savings can be substantial in the case of applications that require new hardware purchases to support the software.
The pay-as-you-go model of payment lets enterprises shift costs to an ongoing operating expense (aka opex) for easier-to-manage budgeting. They can stop subscribing to SaaS offerings whenever they want and thus stop those recurring costs.
How SaaS allows greater flexibility for enterprise IT
Because the applications delivered via SaaS are available over the internet, users can usually access the software from any devices and locations that have internet connectivity.
The ability to run on both mobile devices and computers contrasts with many traditional enterprise applications' computer-only availability. SaaS offerings also tend to support MacOS, iOS, and Android, not just Windows—as well as run on multiple browsers such as Google Chrome, Apple Safari, and Mozilla Firefox, not just (the soon-to-be-discontinued Microsoft Internet Explorer).
Another benefit is easy scalability. Cloud services in general allow enterprises to ramp services and/or features up or down as needed, and SaaS is no different. That's especially important for enterprises whose businesses are cyclical in nature, as well as for organizations that are growing quickly.
SaaS customers also benefit from the fact that service providers can make automatic updates in software—often on a weekly or monthly basis—so enterprises don't need to worry about buying new releases when they are available or installing patches such as security updates. This can be especially appealing to organizations with limited IT staff to handle these tasks.
The risks and challenges of SaaS
SaaS comes with a set of risks and challenges that enterprises need to be aware of to maximize the benefits of the delivery model.
Similar to other cloud services, users of SaaS rely their service providers to be up and running at all times so that they can access applications as needed. They also depend on the providers to ensure that the software is kept up to date in terms of new features, security patches, and other changes.
Although SaaS providers take great measures to ensure continuous uptime and availability, even the largest vendors can experience unexpected interruptions in service. Companies that use SaaS can expect to lose some level of control when it comes to accessibility, which is one of the trade-offs of cloud computing in general.
This loss of control can extent to other areas, such as when a service provider adopts a new version of an application but an enterprise is not ready to make such a change or doesn't want to incur the costs of training users in the new version.
If enterprises decide they want to switch to a new SaaS provider, they might confront the difficult task of moving extremely large files over the internet to the new provider. By contrast, changing locally deployed software usually doesn't change the location of the files, which tend to reside in the enterprise's own datacenter.
Security and privacy are also issues, as they are with other cloud services. If a service provider experiences a data breach, that can compromise safety of the enterprise's data and the availability of the services.
Other potential risks relate service quality and user experience. Despite improvements in networking technology, because SaaS applications might be hosted far from where users are located, there can be latency issues that affect response times for applications.
Many organizations do not have a broad cloud strategy, and this has led to a rise in business users acquiring SaaS applications on their own—without the knowledge of IT—to fill in gaps that exist. That can lead to wasteful spending, poor data management, and extra work to move processes and data from one non-integrated system to another.
SaaS vendors and the trend to greater integration
Among the leading enterprise SaaS providers are ADP, Adobe Systems, Box, Citrix Systems, Dropbox, Google, IBM, Intuit, Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce.com, SAP, ServiceNow, and Workday. But hundreds of companies offer their software as SaaS, from mobile management tools to expense report management, from video transcoding to financial calculations, from customer data cleanup to computer-aided design (CAD).
Because SaaS offerings can come from so many providers, a key trend is the rise in integration among vendor offerings. There are both services meant to integrate multiple SaaS applications, such as to provide single signon and access management across them, and efforts within the SaaS vendor community to create integrations across multiple providers' software so enterprise processes can flow more easily across those applications sourced from multiple providers.


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The life cycle of the stars
A gas cloud, if massive enough, starts to shrink under its own gravitational force. This shrinkage causes the density and temperature to increase. When the density and temperature are high enough, nuclear fusion reactions among ions become more frequent, and Hydrogen is converted into Helium. Eventually, the outward pressure generated by the fusion reactions balances the gravitational force, the shrinkage stops, and the gas cloud becomes a star. This is the present state of our Sun.
After billions of years, most of the Hydrogen fuel has
been "burned", and there's no longer enough
pressure to balance gravity and the star begins to shrink again.
This causes the core temperature to rise to the point
where the fusion of Helium can occur.
A new equilibrium is reached where the star is
now much larger, because the outer layers have expanded
and cooled. In these conditions the star is called a
red giant (referring to the
color of its outer atmosphere).
Our Sun is supposed to reach this state in about five billion
years, and its radius will reach the orbit of
Mars. A red giant will keep on burning until it its nuclear fuel is
exhausted, then a new contraction will take place.
If there is enough mass left in the star this contraction will heat the
core enough to trigger fusion reactions of
heavier elements
at higher and higher temperatures
until the fusion reactions produce
Beyond Iron the nuclear fusion process cannot release anymore energy, and a red giant start reaches the end of its life. The fusion reactions that powered the star have reduced its mass to the point that gravity is not strong enough to hold the outermost layers; this gaseous envelope is ejected to form a planetary nebula. The core of the star collapses to the point that repulsion between electrons balances the gravitational force and a white dwarf is formed. This is an extremely dense star the size of a planet. Finally, when the white dwarf has radiated all its energy away, it stops shining and becomes a "black dwarf", a dead star. This is expected to be the final state of our Sun.
For stars with higher masses than the Sun (up to about 40
times greater), gravitational collapse will be much faster, lasting
a period of time estimated in the order of few seconds.
An enormous shock wave is produced that pushes the
outer layers of the star away and heats them.
The star becomes extremely bright and large,
comparable to the brightness of a galaxy.
This is a supernova.
In the final gravitational collapse of the supernova core,
gravity overwhelms electron pressure and
electrons and protons are brought close enough together to
be converted into neutrons.
The star collapses down to a radius of few tens of kilometers:
this is what is called a "neutron star".
For stars larger than 40 solar masses the collapse
following the supernova explosion is so fast that
even the pressure from the neutrons formed
in the core is not enough to stop the contraction.
The density increases to the point that the
velocity needed to escape from the gravitational field is larger than
the velocity of light. Light itself is then trapped
inside and the object has become invisible: this is a "black hole".


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Clinton Chiropractors With Two Locations
Chiropractic Care in Clinton and Wartburg
Welcome to Anderson County Family Chiropractic and Morgan County Chiropractic Offices, where our family and staff are here to serve you and your family with safe, effective chiropractic care for you to begin living your life again by ending your pain. Clinton Chiropractors Dr. Jacqueline Berk and Dr. J. Brad Farmer provide chiropractic care to help you resolve your current condition and feel better than you have in a long time. We want to help you discover a wellness lifestyle in order for you to enjoy what is really important to you without suffering or worrying.
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Chiropractic care covers a wide range of health concerns including neck pain, headaches, migraines, back pain, numbness and tingling into the hands and feet, sciatica, disc injuries, sports injuries, work and car injuries and repetitive motion injuries, like hours on your computer or texting and so much more! We want you to be able to sleep well, perform your daily activities, enjoy your hobbies, play with your family, be able to work at your highest potential and just feel good about yourself. Chiropractic can help you perform at your best, whether you are a weekend warrior or a mom who wants to have more energy to take care of her family better.
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We want you to feel at ease when you come to our offices. We will educate you on the importance of the nervous system and how it impacts your function of your body. We want you to understand that the human body is the most amazing creation and why it needs to be maintained so it will function at its best for a very long time. Remember anything that you place value on requires maintenance your body should be the most important thing you value and maintain! You only have one and it cannot ever be totally replaced! Please contact us at Anderson County Family Chiropractic or Morgan County Chiropractic to schedule your appointment with our chiropractors and end your pain today!
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Press Release
Former City Clerk In Havana, KSPleads Guilty To Embezzlement
For Immediate Release
U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Kansas
WICHITA, KAN. A former city clerk for the city of Havana, Kan., pleaded guilty Wednesday to embezzling funds from the city and from her church, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said. She agreed to pay restitution of approximately $14,658 to the city of Havana and $44,568 to Cross Point Baptist Church.
Diana L. Cox, 67, Havana, Kan., pleaded guilty to one count of bank fraud and one count of wire fraud.
In her plea, she admitted embezzling $14,658 from the city of Havana while she was working as city clerk. On Aug. 18, 2011, she presented documents to the Arvest Bank in Caney, Kan., falsely stating that the Havana City Council had voted to change its policy to require only one signature on checks written for city business.
She also admitted that while she was treasurer of the Cross Point Baptist Church she devised a scheme to defraud the church of approximately $44,568. On Dec. 30, 2011, she caused the church to electronically transfer approximately $2,536 to Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance to make a mortgage payment due on her daughter's home.
Sentencing is set for April 16. She faces a maximum penalty of 30 years and a fine up to $1 million on the bank fraud count, and a maximum penalty of 20 years and a fine up to $250,000 on the wire fraud count.
Grissom commended the FBI and Assistant U.S. Attorney Mona Furst for their work on the case.Updated December 15, 2014


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